Judith Burdick: Difference Maker In The Community

BINGHAM FARMS (WWJ)- Can a crushing grief be the catalyst to change a life for the better? "Yes" says psychotherapist and filmmaker Judith Burdick of Bingham Farms - her movie 'Transforming Loss' focuses on people who have experienced terrible loss.

She speaks from experience having lost her husband not long after starting a family.

"I was widowed at the age of 31 - I lost my husband then in a scuba diving accident and I was left with two small children to raise," she said.

She went back to school to become a psychotherapist specializing in grief and loss. The movie features six families. She knows many people suffer in silence and never share their grief - the movie is a way to touch more people.

"So I'm trying to reach as many people as I possibly can with this film and I think film is just such a powerful medium," said Burdick.

Burdick says she is always amazed at how strong the human spirit is: "We really don't know what we are made of until we are tested. Anybody, anybody is capable of transformation if they believe it's an option.

Click on the link for more information or to view the trailer for 'Transforming Loss' .

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